Man held from Punjab for duping jewellery store owner of gold worth Rs 6 crore

A 42yearold man named Sushil Kumar a resident of Ludhiana in Punjab was arrested for allegedly duping a Punjabbased jeweler of 10 kilograms of gold worth Rs 6 croreThe incident took place in Delhi where two people posed as GST inspectors and stopped the victims employees who were transporting the gold from Delhi to Ludhiana Police saidA case was registered at Rani Bagh police station on Saturday on the complaint of Ravinder Kumar In his complaint the victim said he purchases gold from Delhi to make jewellery and sells those in the local markets of Ludhiana a senior officer saidOn July 10 he sent his driver Balraj and employee Rajan Bawa with the requisite GST bills to take the delivery of a consignment from Karol Bagh here They took the delivery around 900 pm and left for Ludhiana in their car the officer saidAround 930 pm when they reached near Haryana Matri Bhawan their vehicle was stopped by another car Two unidentified people got down from the car and introduced themselves as inspectors Satbir Singh and Ravi Kumar from the central GST department the officer saidAlso readNitish Kumars prime ministerial ambitions an eyesore for Congress Bihar BJP presidentThey inspectors told the pair that they had information about unauthorised gold in the car They also asked the pair to produce the bill for the goldWhen Bawa called Ravinder Kumar the victim informed one of the inspectors that the bills were with him Deputy Commissioner of Police Outer Harendra Singh saidThe two inspectors then seized the gold and told driver Balraj to meet them at their office Singh saidThe complainant reached Delhi the following day and visited the office where he found that the two inspectors who had seized the gold were impersonators the police saidHis employee Bawa also cut off contact from July 11 they addedDuring the investigation the police scanned around 100 CCTV cameras and found that the car used to commit the crime was going towards Punjab Bawa was also in contact with someone who was waiting at a dhaba in Murthal Sonipat at the time of the incident Singh saidThereafter the man sitting at the dhaba headed towards Shahbad near Ambala where he deboarded from his vehicle On the basis of technical surveillance he was identified as Sushil Kumar and arrested from Punjab Singh saidSushil Kumar disclosed that he was a regular at the GST office and had gained some knowledge of its workings Having known Bawa for two years he planned the heist with him the officer saidBawa knew where the complainant got his supply of gold from and leaked the information to Sushil Kumar the police saidSushil Kumar is an accused in 18 criminal cases including cheating and impersonation He hired a personal security officer after he was fired at they saidThe police recovered eight gold plates worth around Rs 48 crore from his home Efforts are underway to nab Bawa and the other accused the police added PTI